- UX Tau A And LkCa 15 - Teenagers Among Solar Systems
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... detected. The systems are around the young stars UX Tau A and LkCa 15, located in the Taurus star formation region just 450 light ... rendition of the 1-million-year-old star system UX Tau A, located approximately 450 light-years away. Observations from NASA's ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2007 - 12:17pm - 1 attachment
- Possible New Alzheimer’s Gene Identified
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... of the gene variant also had higher levels of the protein tau, which is associated with the disease. In patients with the disease the mean level of tau in the spinal marrow fluid is about three times higher than the level in ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2007 - 11:30am - 0 attachments
- Is Global Warming Melting Soft Coral?
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... University Professor (and alumnus) Hudi Benayahu, head of TAU's Porter School of Environmental Studies, has found that soft corals, an ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2007 - 11:45am - 2 attachments
- How Solar Neutrinos Make The Sun's Heart Beat
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... only produces electron neutrinos, these can change into tau or muon neutrinos, which have proved more difficult to detect. ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 21 2007 - 8:21am - 0 attachments
- The Link Between Stress And The Development Of Alzheimers
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... of memories and learning, is free of phosphorylated tau. Top right: Subjecting mice to low-level chronic emotional stress--the kind we experience in everyday life--leads to widespread tau phosphorylation, a key step in the formation of neurofibrillary tangles ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 14 2007 - 4:23pm - 0 attachments
- Reducing Protein Tau Can Prevent Neurological Deficits Related To Alzheimer's
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... (GIND) have discovered that reducing levels of the protein tau can prevent seizures and neurological deficits related to Alzheimer's ... today in the journal Science, demonstrate that when tau is removed from mice genetically engineered to simulate Alzheimer's ...
Article - News Staff - May 3 2007 - 2:17pm - 0 attachments
- Omega-3 Fatty Acid May Help Prevent Alzheimer's Brain Lesions
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... DHA, an omega-3 fatty acid, can slow the accumulation of tau, a protein that leads to the development of neurofibrillary tangles. Such ... of the test groups had lower levels of beta amyloid and tau than mice in the control group, but at nine months, only mice on the DHA ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2007 - 6:31pm - 0 attachments
- MiniBooNE Resolves Long-standing Neutrino Question
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... are known to exist: electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos and tau neutrinos. In the last 10 years, several experiments have shown that ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 11 2007 - 12:51pm - 0 attachments
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